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@Dr.D and WES: I agree that shutting down these cities in China effectively embargos San Diego and Los Angeles to a degree, and maybe some specific, critical things are completely cut off for a specific injury to occur, but I’m not convinced that the extreme cost to China is worth it to China.
They could cut things off with a cheaper excuse. Xi Jinping has staked his reputation on this lockdown now.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/president-xi-insists-chinas-covid-lockdowns-will-stand-test-time@Citizen-X: She looks lovely and sincere. She looks like she’s be a good mother. She’s blonde like my mother.
When I was a young guy, and before I fell in love with my wife, I’d have been HOPING she knocked-me-up.
(And I could go on Oprah and Phil after that, too!)Harkening to the series of posts from Shanghai…
This has been bothering me for weeks, now.
Why?
This is VERY expensive for China, especially in political capital. They act like another bioweapon is already on the loose, but they are just saying “COVID”. They are isolating and testing and isolating and testing, and it’s swab tests.
One guy said he’s had “35 tests”.
What are they looking for besides COVID? Anything? My fevered imagination?
The Chinese government is a frugal government (Graft is different, of course.)What if there was a sneeze going around that would kill your liver?
Adenovirus is a very mild virus, and our immune systems barely notice it, so it can be used as a “vector” for DNA vaccines (A-Z, J&J, Sputnik).
Adenovirus never causes deadly hepatitis, until last month…
https://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/features/health/hepatitis-cases-in-children-might-be-linked-to-adenovirus-uk-health-officials-report/article_a3ebef32-3979-5b99-a12a-e6b9239f0f12.html
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/cdc-investigating-109-mysterious-hepatitis-cases-children-including-5-deathsJust wondering. I do this “pattern recognition” thing, whether I want to or not.
This looks familiar, somehow.Re: American fuel prices in Texas:
I’m seeing regular gas for $3.69/gal @ Costco ,$3.89 as a common better-price and up to $3.99 (psychological limit?)
Diesel runs about $1 more than gasoline here.
Prices are all up and down from day to day, and the lowest one daymay be the higher of the 4 I watch closely on another day.
Costco is never highest (and not always lowest).@Mr. House: It’s hard for me to find specific information on local fuel taxes, except that they exist in some places.
When I look at Texas fuel taxes specifically, I find that I was mistaken.
I know there are always some places just out of some towns, on the interstate, that are always cheaper.Sorry, I was wrong.
@Mr. House: different local taxation-entities levy different rates of tax upon gasoline, I believe.
Some places may have different contracts than others. Prices vary markedly over a period of days along my frequent 100 mile drive. Our local Valero, our local Costco, and 2 grocery stores of the same chain, in different rural communities are what I largely monitor. Any one of them might win on one day and (except Costco) be most expensive a couple of days later.
The stations that are always cheapest in their neighborhoods appear to have it as a business model. People go in and buy other things, too.Death is a “serious side effect”, of course.
A German study has found that the number of serious side effects after Corona vaccines was 40 times higher than previously reported. The Charité, a well-known hospital in Berlin, interviewed 40 000 vaccinated people after they had received their mandated jabs.
The interviews showed that the number of serious side effects was 40 times higher than previously reported by medical supervisors the Paul Ehrlich Institute…
https://www.globalresearch.ca/serious-adverse-jab-reactions-40-times-higher-than-previously-reported/5779506Study of 23 Million People Shows Risk of Myocarditis After COVID Vaccines
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/study-myocarditis-covid-vaccines-jimmy-dore/?That study is excerpted here:
SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination and Myocarditis in a Nordic Cohort Study of 23 Million Residents
Conclusions and Relevance: Results of this large cohort study indicated that both first and second doses of mRNA vaccines were associated with increased risk of myocarditis and pericarditis. For individuals receiving 2 doses of the same vaccine, risk of myocarditis was highest among young males (aged 16-24 years) after the second dose.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/sars-cov-2-vaccination-myocarditis-nordic-cohort-study-23-million-residents/5779390Meryl Nass MD points out that people who got one shot, or even two, appear to mostly be avoiding the COVID vaccines at this point.
Most Americans Don’t Want Those Shots
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/a-lot-of-americans-dont-want-those?s=rOn Wednesday, (president) Biden suggested that the potential overturning of Roe v. Wade was a slippery slope.
Biden proposed a hypothetical situation, “What happens if you have states change the law saying that children who are LGBTQ can’t be in classrooms with other children?”… (Huh, come again, Sir?)
”Because this MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that’s existed in American history, in recent American history,” Biden said, making a reference to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement...
(Former Hawaiian Congresswoman, Tulsi) Gabbard was incensed by Biden’s incendiary remarks and slammed the president during an appearance on Fox News’ “Hannity.”
”When you look at the President of the United States of America calling millions of Americans, essentially terrorists, people who politically opposed him or voted against him, he’s calling them terrorists in an attempt to intimidate them into silence. And we know this because we’ve heard this before from both him and his attorney general.”
Gabbard pointed to the Justice Department’s newly-formed “Domestic Terrorism Unit” that will target the “elevated threat from domestic violent extremists.”
”You remember when his attorney general said, you know, anyone who holds extremist or anti-authority views will be targeted for investigation and potential prosecution by their domestic terrorist unit,” Gabbard said. “So he’s essentially saying that this, quote-unquote ‘MAGA’ crowd are worse than terrorists. This is outrageous.”
https://www.theblaze.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-joe-biden-maga-terroristsGlenn Greenwald: Homeland Security’s “Disinformation Board” is Even More Pernicious Than it Seems
The power to decree what is “disinformation” now determines what can and cannot be discussed on the internet. It is now in the hands of trained disinformation agents of the U.S. Security State.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/homeland-securitys-disinformation?About that Canadian general who surrendered in Mariupol. thanks Eleni.
The Russian armed forces arrested Canadian General Trevor Cadieu in Mariupol on the night of 2-3 May 2022. He is currently in Moscow awaiting to stand trial.
General Trevor Kadier was apparently not on a mission for his government, but was in charge of biolaboratory No. 1, with 18 staff working under his command.
The National Pulse reported that Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, and Christopher Heinz, John Kerry’s son-in-law, had organized subcontracting arrangements for Ukrainian research laboratories through their firm Rosemont Capital, on behalf of the Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).
The (jealous?) Chinese Foreign Ministry revealed that the United States operates 336 biological and chemical weapons research laboratories abroad.
https://www.voltairenet.org/article216731.htmlI like the line, “Zelensky will instruct Biden”.
Hungary has announced they will not stop purchasing oil and gas from Russia and join a blockade of energy products by the 27 member EU alliance.
Hungary will not support sanctions that would make Russian oil and gas shipments to Hungary impossible, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in a statement on Tuesday.
Speaking in Kazakhstan, Szijjarto said Russian oil shipments via the Druzhba pipeline accounted for about 65% of the oil Hungary needed and there were no alternative supply routes that could replace that. (link)
Slovakia has also announced they will not participate, which makes any collective EU action problematic. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is reported to be using his connection to the U.S. and Joe Biden in an effort to force the EU to deliver additional sanctions. Essentially, if an EU country does not fall in line, Zelenskyy will instruct Biden not to support that EU country with the money congress is preparing to use as blackmail...if you look closely at the $33 billion spending demand from the White House, it’s clear to see the U.S. State Dept, specifically those who are currently operating the proxy war along with the CIA, are positioning the funds for use as bribes to EU allies.
Any deal on Russian oil would require the consent of all 27 EU members, meaning it could not pass without Hungary and Slovakia’s approval. The bloc agreed on an embargo on Russian coal in the fifth package last month, while it has not yet ventured into gas.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/hungary-continue-purchases-oil-gas-from-russia-zelenskyy-european-union-furious/5779501Big-league doxxing”:
Not only Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban but also Croatian President Zoran Milanovic and a Nobel Prize winner have been listed on Myrotvorets, the Ukrainian intelligence database which acts as a hit list.
Sputnik described the website on Monday as a “notorious Ukrainian kill list”. In April 2015, Myrotvorets, [translated as Peacemaker] published the home addresses of Ukrainian writer Oles Buzina and former Verkhovna Rada parliamentarian Oleg Kalashnikov, “just days before they were assassinated,” according to Wikipedia.
Myrotvorets has outed Orban as an “anti-Ukrainian propagandist”.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/hungarian-pm-croatian-president-noble-prize-winner-ukrainian-hit-list/5779397“Slavic genocide”, say some…
Without artillery support in good quantity the Ukrainian military has no chance to hold the line and to stop Russian moves. Any unit which attempts is hold the line will simply be mauled by Russian artillery until it is no longer able to fight. That is happening now. As the Ukrainians have orders not to leave or move their defense lines they either have to give up or die defending them.
By giving ‘hold the line’ orders the Ukrainian leadership is contributing to the Russian demilitarization of the Ukraine.
Why is it doing that? The situation for the Ukraine is hopeless and has been for some time. Why has its President Zelensky not given up? Why does he not agree to Russia’s peace conditions? …
..It is the ‘west’ that is preventing Zelensky from suing for peace.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/05/ukraines-forces-are-told-to-hold-the-line-where-russian-artillery-is-pulverizing-them.html#moreThis article raises the question in my mind of how long I would need to be under repeated artillery barrage before I would choose death instead. Ukrainian soldiers face this day and night, without real respite, and without much hope. Their comrades have already died from shelling. Humans break. Thanks Dan.
Ukraine’s Army Is In Very Bad Shape – More Fighting Will Only Destroy It , Moon of Alabama (German)
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/05/ukraines-army-is-in-very-bad-state-more-fighting-will-only-destroy-it.htmlElsewhere I saw the view that training of Ukrainian troops , near Lviv, in Western Ukraine, to fight Russia has had to move to Germany, in a much smaller operation. All of the seasoned soldiers are already being chewed up by war. These new weapons take time to learn and much more time to learn to use effectively in battle.
Many are not applicable to battle, like anti-tank missiles with range a little over a mile, when enemy tanks are behind the artillery batteries, which are pounding you from 20 miles away. The West has some time to prepare other troops for the meat-grinder, if the Ukrainians can appear to hold out until September.
Poles and Romanians seem to be next in that line-up.
US Ramps Up Training of Ukrainian Troops
Hundreds (not tens of thousands) of Ukrainians are being trained on howitzers, drones, radars, and armored vehicles provided by the USNATO member states are bravely sending their end-of-life weapons systems, and depleted-uranium weapons to the killing fields of Ukraine.
Go Ukrainians! Thanks J.A.W.
https://21stcenturywire.com/2022/05/03/revealed-are-france-and-nato-shipping-depleted-uranium-weaponry-into-ukraine/Since the very special battery packs are so long expired, the missiles do not seem to hit the tanks, but they still explode and spread the uranium.
“Mission-accomplished”, I guess.
UKRAINIAN POW REVEALS PROBLEMS WITH US-MADE JAVELIN & BRITISH-MADE NLAW ANTI-TANK MISSILESUkrainian POW Reveals Problems With US-Made Javelin & British-Made NLAW Anti-Tank Missiles
Self Sacrifice : sunrise garden with coffee pictured again
https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/self-sacrifice?s=wTo what degree is our human species programmed to commit mass suicide in hard times?
Genetically, we respond differently to different situations, emotionally, not with rational assessment.
We look at the Jim Jones followers all drinking the poisoned Kool-Aid at the same time, or at German blindness to genocide in WW-2 with disbelief.
A quote attributed to Joseph Mengele MD, speaking to imprisoned subjects, who he was testing to death, haunts me.
“The more we do to you, the less you believe it.”
Stress is very hard on us. If we cannot escape, why have stress?
If we can escape, it is worth the “eternal vigilance” if we can break out and survive.At what point do we decide that stress is not needed for a fake threat, or not needed because “resistance is futile”?
It looks like individuals and cohesive human groups behave differently under inescapable, relentless threat of death.
Individual humans, prepared or unprepared, have a wide range of endurance capabilities.
Special forces troops are trained in how to resist psychologically. Some fold, and other wills cannot be broken.Cohesive groups support each other emotionally under stress, and usually maintain group cohesion.
The followers of Jim Jones died together after drinking poison together at the same moment.
Azov-Brigade nationalists, trapped underground at the Mariupol steel factory complex, face a fairly certain death if they do not surrender.
They are not surrendering. It appears that they kill deserters who try to surrender.
They are ordered to hold their positions.
Those giving them this order are ordering their suicide-by-Russian.
Those orders are being followed.After 3 days freezing in a cattle-car would you remove all of your clothes and go naked with your children to the shower?
People did this. It looks like everybody went to the showers, whole families, but men separated from women.
I’m sure that it was easier to go to the showers. Resistance was futile at that point.We have the ability to look at history, to look at our human nature in different situations and to look at how people may be gradually driven into situations where there is “no way out”. Some consciousness plans many small steps along the way to the trap, and makes the choice of each step easy, with rewards and punishments.
No single step suggests the ultimate destination of genocide or personal death. Those threats are hidden until the final and inescapable moment.When we begin to have suspicions, what do we do?
How early in the process do we become suspicious, based upon our reading of history?
This question does not plague most people, but it always haunted me.
How would a German Jew, who had options to give up everything and go to another country, know when it was the right action?
We can look back and see that the beginning of depersonalization of a group of humans marks the point of departure from their having the same rights as “good Germans”. This also happened during the Spanish Inquisition, and in the “killing fields” of Cambodia. It happened to “decadent intellectuals” in the Cultural Revolution.Last year, when I saw the de-humanization of “the unvaccinated” beginning, I knew that I had to “stand naked with the Jews”.
Anything less than putting myself openly in that group would be the beginning of subtle capitulation to the beginning of a genocide.
We had taught the children to look out for a sign. We traveled to the Anne Frank House, Dachau prison camp, and to the Tuol Sleng “museum” of Cambodian genocide. In each place we saw that normal people had slowly been turned to do this to other normal people.
Guards often became suspects and prisoners themselves, were imprisoned, tortured and killed.
Did that spare their souls?I really have nothing to present but these questions. We are already on the road to mass killings, but it’s not in our neighborhoods.
We’re safe here, right? Food and fuel shortages won’t be bad, and certainly won’t lead to mass killings where we live.
Nobody would go along with that, no matter how hungry, no matter how broadly some local minority might be blamed, no matter how long it lasted, no matter who was already doing it.
No matter if people started calling them a “Putin-lover”… Right?@TAE Summary:
I was prepared to laud your work again, but I’ll laud your choice of Mark Twain instead.@bolingfrog:
I’ll get there today. You and I are not the ones who walk to the gas chamber without fighting…@Armenio Pereira:
“Faith without works is dead.”
The answer to my prayers comes, “grow food and share truth!”Prep and Pray!
There is lots to think about again today, but as soon as I saw this information yesterday, I saw a flaw in the logic. Russia knows this is not how the ship was sunk, so this information is for American domestic-consumption only:
…the White House is about to flip the switch from a “proxy war” into an actual hot war between the United States and Russia. How do we know? Because the Biden administration is openly bragging about their specific military operations inside Ukraine that are killing Russians. Consider:
NYT: “The United States provided intelligence that helped Ukrainian forces locate and strike the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet last month, another sign that the administration is easing its self-imposed limitations on how far it will go in helping Ukraine fight Russia, U.S. officials said.” …Still, it makes the purpose clear of escalating to direct war against Russia, at least as an open option, being developed in American domestic politics.
I’d like to point out gin the problem faced by my hospitalized patient around 1986, the one whose boyfriend told her that if she killed his baby, he would kill her. She believed it. We kept the incidental finding of pregnancy off her hospital bill and summary, and we hoped her termination went ok and was not discovered.
There is often a predator-prey relationship between males and females in the reproductive realm. Once a female is impregnated, all of the costs and risks can be dumped on her by the male. It works, sometimes for men, and it is a low cost investment. Some men are such bad investments for a woman, that this is their standard approach, with variations.
If a woman retains a later-termination option, she has a defense against this predatory mating.
Predatory mating is really common in the world where I live, maybe not your world, perhaps…@TAE Summary: I have really been enjoying your summations recently and it’s STILL nice to have you back, old friend!
@my Parents Said Know:
1) You are not supposed to look over the fence at Rense.com .
2) Yeah, I already saw the first part of the video until I turned it off suddenly in a protective reflex.@Oxymoron: Goos-on-Ya, Mate. You did well for 14 years old.
@Figmund Sreud: I like what Voltaire said this morning:
“Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.”Voltaire supposedly drank a LOT of coffee in his day.
🙂@Figmund Sreud: Thanks for the Moon of Alabama investigation of Sergey Lavrov’s apparently offhand remark :
” I may be mistaken but Adolf Hitler had Jewish blood, too. This means absolutely nothing. The wise Jewish people say that the most ardent anti-Semites are usually Jews. “Every family has its black sheep” …How many skins hath this onion?
..Mr. Lapid said that Mr. Lavrov’s comments were “both an unforgivable and outrageous statement as well as a terrible historical error.”
“Jews did not murder themselves in the Holocaust,” he added. “The lowest level of racism against Jews is to accuse Jews themselves of antisemitism.” …..It seems to me that Lavrov has that one right. It really seems that Adolf Hitler had some Jewish ancestors who even paid for the upbringing of his father.
Now onto the other issue, Lavrov’s claim that:
.. the most ardent anti-Semites are usually Jews. “Every family has its black sheep,” as we say.
Yair Lapid does not agree with that. Well, his father didn’t either until, to his embarrassment, some new facts proved him wrong. There is for example the well known case of Rudolf Kasztner in which Lapid’s father was involved.51 times more likely to die in one age group…
Children’s Risk of Death Increases by 5100% Following COVID-19 Vaccination Compared to Unvaccinated Children According to Official ONS Data
Vitamin-D is protective against contacting COVID and saves lives. Why was this not released sooner? (July to December 2020 study)
Efficacy and Safety of Vitamin D Supplementation to Prevent COVID-19 in Frontline Healthcare Workers. A Randomized Clinical TrialResults
Of 321 recruited subjects, 94 VDG and 98 PG completed follow-up. SARS-CoV-2 infection rate was lower in VDG than in PG (6.4 vs. 24.5%, p <0.001). The risk of acquiring SARS-CoV-2 infection was lower in the VDG than in the PG (RR: 0.23; 95% CI: 0.09–0.55) and was associated with an increment in serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (RR: 0.87; 95% CI: 0.82–0.93), independently of VD deficiency. No significant adverse events were identified.
Conclusions
Our results suggest that VD-supplementation in highly exposed individuals prevents SARS-CoV-2 infection without serious AEs and regardless of VD status https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0188440922000455Former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D) suggested that former President Barack Obama is behind the Biden administration’s creation of the Disinformation Governance Board.
“Biden is just a front man. Obama, April 21: social media censors ‘don’t go far enough,’ so the government needs to step in to do the job. Six days later, Homeland Security rolls out the ‘Ministry of Truth’ (aka Disinformation Governance Board),” Gabbard tweeted.Tulsi Gabbard: Obama Behind ‘Ministry of Truth,’ Biden Just a ‘Front Man’
It is an excellent case, and now with serious legal funding. They ruined this honest man, who rightfully owned Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop, turned it over to the FBI and waited most of a year before sharing it with Team Trump and the New York Post (which was also defamed). Not “Russian hacking”…
Repairman who revealed Hunter Biden laptop sues Schiff, CNN, Politico and the Daily Beast
“After fighting to reveal the truth, all I want now is for the rest of the country to know that there was a collective and orchestrated effort by social and mainstream media to block a real story with real consequences for the nation,” the 45-year-old Mac Isaac told The Post.
https://nypost.com/2022/05/03/repairman-who-revealed-hunter-biden-laptop-sues-schiff-cnn-politico-beast/ Personally, I have always supported women, my friends, patients and relatives in their right to choose whether or not to continue a pregnancy.
My medical practice has always reflected this. I have gone to lengths to protect individual women from individual threats to their choice. (Boyfriend telling a patient, “If you kill my baby, I’ll kill you”, comes to mind. We had to keep her pregnancy secret.)SCOTUS leak increases Democrat’s odds of controlling House/Senate after midterms
On Tuesday, President Biden reacted immediately to the leaked draft and said:
”I believe that a woman’s right to choose is fundamental, Roe has been the law of the land for almost fifty years, and basic fairness and the stability of our law demand that it not be overturned. ”And it will fall on voters to elect pro-choice officials this November.”
The Democrats now have a compelling message, something they lacked this year as the highest inflation in four decades crushes working poor Americans who struggle with record-high gas and food prices moved to the right side of the political aisle. Now, there’s a chance that some middle of the fence voters could be swayed to vote Democrat based on a potential ruling by the Supreme Court. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/scotus-leak-sparks-surge-democrats-odds-controlling-senate-after-midtermsGlenn Greenwald points out that the constitutional role of the Supreme Court is widely misunderstood. It does not make laws, but interprets constitutional meaning and intent, as they relate to laws or rights of American citizens, when questions arise. This protects the rights of citizens who are in the minority.
The Irrational, Misguided Discourse Surrounding Supreme Court Controversies Such as Roe v. Wade
Politico on Monday night published what certainly appears to be a genuine draft decision by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito that would overturn the Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade. Alito’s draft ruling would decide the pending case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which concerns the constitutionality of a 2018 Mississippi law that bans abortions after fifteen weeks of pregnancy except in the case of medical emergency or severe fetal abnormalities. Given existing Supreme Court precedent that abortion can only be restricted after fetal viability, Mississippi’s ban on abortions after the 15th week — at a point when the fetus is not yet deemed viable — is constitutionally dubious. To uphold Mississippi’s law — as six of the nine Justices reportedly wish to do — the Court must either find that the law is consistent with existing abortion precedent, or acknowledge that it conflicts with existing precedent and then overrule that precedent on the ground that it was wrongly decided.....Draft rulings and even justices’ votes sometimes change in the period between the initial vote after oral argument and the issuance of the final decision. Depending on whom you choose to believe, this leak is either the work of a liberal justice or clerk designed to engender political pressure on the justices so that at least one abandons their intention to overrule Roe, or it came from a conservative justice or clerk, designed to make it very difficult for one of the justices in the majority to switch sides...
..One of the primary concerns in designing the new American republic, if not the chief concern, was how to balance the need to establish rule by the majority (democracy) with the equally compelling need to restrain majorities from veering into impassioned, self-interested attacks on the rights of minorities (republican government)... The point of the Constitution, and ultimately the Supreme Court, was to establish a republic, not a pure democracy, that would place limits on the power of majorities... Thus, in the U.S., it does not matter if 80% or 90% of Americans support a law to restrict free speech, or ban the free exercise of a particular religion, or imprison someone without due process, or subject a particularly despised criminal to cruel and unusual punishment. Such laws can never be validly enacted.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-irrational-misguided-discourse?s=r
10 EU countries quietly buying gas with rubles, Hungary says
European leaders won’t admit they’re going along with Russia’s deal
https://www.rt.com/business/554827-hungary-eu-gas-rubles/The European economy is dependent upon imported oil and gas. High fuel prices are a multiplier of all costs of living and manufacture in europe. Cessation of supply would reasonably cause deaths and industrial shut-down.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced plans for a phased ban on all Russian oil by the end of the year.
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told the European Parliament this would be “a complete import ban on all Russian oil, seaborne and pipeline, crude and refined.”
“We will make sure that we phase out Russian oil in an orderly fashion, in a way that allows us and our partners to secure alternative supply routes and minimises the impact on global markets,” she said.
“This is why we will phase out Russian supply of crude oil within six months and refined products by the end of the year.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/eu-proposes-ban-russian-oil-imports Pepe Escobar explains the historic differences between Byzantium (Constantinople) and Rome.
Some high points are the differences in relation to the organized Church.
In Roman Catholicism, the Church hierarchy intercedes between man and God.
In Eastern Orthodox Christianity, individual Christians are guided by God through the Holy Spirit, not subject to commands from a Pope/Patriarch.
The Orthodox clergy are facilitators of worship.
Importantly, Crusaders sacked Constantinople, “showing their true colors”.
Constantinople was “the Second Rome”. There is also a “Third Rome” in this tradition.
Clash of Christianities: Why Europe cannot understand Russia
https://thesaker.is/clash-of-christianities-why-europe-cannot-understand-russia/Russia captures (recent former, disgraced) Commander of Canadian Army at Azovstal
General Trevor Cadieu (Trevor John Cadieu), captured by Russian troops while trying to escape from the cellars of Azovstal, was (recently) the commander of the Canadian Ground Forces, APA reports citing Mailbd.
Seated in the catacombs under the Mariupol steel plant “Azovstal” nationalists staged a provocation, trying to hide the Canadian general’s attempt to escape. After the capture of a high-ranking foreign soldier by units of the RF Armed Forces, it became clear why so many efforts were made to save him.
A high-ranking mercenary tried to break out of the encirclement at Azovstal several times. It was for this that the West insisted on humanitarian corridors for the exit of civilians: among them, foreign specialists had to leave the catacombs.
https://apa.az/en/america/russia-captures-commander-of-canadian-army-at-azovstal-375055Picture of Jenny with fresh-pulled carrots in the garden https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/thought-for-food?s=w
Economist, Michael Hudson (who accidentally wrote the cookbook for the petro-dollar, “Super Imperialism”, just in time for Nixon and Kissinger to use it) has a new interview out, about…
MICHAEL HUDSON… So, basically the oil companies and the US are going to let the third-world countries go into a crisis. If they default on their bonds, then the United States and the bondholders get to treat Latin America like they treated Argentina or Venezuela and grab whatever assets they have outside of their country. Like Venezuela had investments in the United States and gold that it left in the Bank of England that were grabbed.
There’s going to be a huge asset grab. That is supposed to be how this unfolds, and the most obvious assets to the grabbed are going to be in Latin America and Africa. Maybe some Asian deficit countries. So, this is the weakest link, and that’s why there’s this fight within the IMF at the upcoming meetings, to create these special drawing rights to give them money on the condition that there is a class war.
So, what we’re seeing, really, isn’t a war between NATO and Russia. It’s a class war of the neoliberals against labor across the world to establish the power of finance over labor.
AARON MATÉ: And so, do you think that there’s a threat of an even worse hunger crisis in this world, one that we’re not talking about and should be preparing for it?
MICHAEL HUDSON: A threat? That’s the objective! Yes, of course. That’s what they’re aiming at. If you read what Klaus Schwab says at the World Economic Forum, he said there are 20 percent too many people in the world, especially in the Global South. This is what all the big foundations are for. What we are seeing in the world now is a global shock to oil prices, fertilizer prices and food staple prices, as Professor Hudson points out. Countries in “the global south” will not be able to feed their citizens and also make debt-payments, so they will be forced into default and the $US empire will set about to take their assets, whether owned by the countries or their wealthy elites.
Professor Hudson projects that the IMF will give out SDRs (special drawing rights), IMF-money to compliant regimes, which will be required to carry out “class warfare”, to strip their citizens of the food they need to live,and their nationalized industries, like Venezuela’s oil industry.
Those countries which do not comply will be in default, and will be subject to the direct predation of the $US empire.
That appears to be the plan. It has worked before, but this deflationary-asset-grabhas not really been run since the Asian Economic Crisis.
The world is “Multipolar” now.
What we already see from Russia and China, as well as other major countries like India, Iran, Brazil and likely Turkey and South Africa, is the preparation to formalize a parallel global trade system, which will allow countries to repudiate $US debts to the IMF and western banking, and to militarily resist assaults and invasions upon national assets, like oil fields.
Russia and China will not hold default on $US loans against countries in this new arrangement, and will recognize their ownership of their nationalized assets, like Peru’s lithium mines. It appears that the critical mass exists to create this parallel global trade regime outside of the $US wealth-extraction-system.
If this system is able to persist, after being tried in some asset-wars, where the western empire attempts to grab things like oil-wells and mines, then the $US empire will be forced into collapse. This is not in the distant future, but in the next few years.
History shows that when people do not have enough food, they are much more warlike as populations. Rulers have typically turned hungry populations to war against other hungry populations, which protects the (winning side) rulers from their hungry subjects.
It seems likely that some of this will be tested in America and other western countries, to get more emotional fervor for the WAR! narrative, which is already being pumped. We should find ways to avoid becoming desperately hungry. It will help us to think more clearly and have more freedom to make our own choices.
Personally, I think it is time for massive global debt-forgiveness at all levels and a fresh economic start, without widespread debt slavery. We need to fashion an efficient economy to meet the needs of real people everywhere, or a lot of smaller systems which can trade fairly with each other.
This will be bad for all “assets” which pay out interest and dividends, bad for retirement plans, but mostly bad for global financial elites.Sergey Glazyev, a Russian economist, tasked to roll-out the global financial alternative system has this:
For those who still don’t understand
This (western) plan also provides for the following tasks:
Consolidation of US control over the European Union and NATO countries;
Use of the armed forces of Poland, Romania and the Baltic states, as well as mercenaries from the West, the Middle East and the Middle East in combat operations against Russia;
The destruction of the male population and the actual enslavement of women and children of Ukraine for the subsequent development of this territory in the interests of the power and financial elite of the United States, Britain and Israel.
The implementation of this plan, in fact, is aimed at destroying the Russian world, followed by the American “deep state” plans to destroy Iran and block China.
Due to the objective laws of global economic development, this plan is doomed to failure. The United States will not be able to win the global hybrid war it has unleashed to maintain its global hegemony. They are irrevocably losing it to China, which is rapidly strengthening as a result of anti-Russian sanctions.
https://thesaker.is/sergey-glazyev-for-those-who-still-dont-understand/Did Hitler “have Jewish blood”? Sergei Lavrov has referred to that rumor as part of an argument that Ukraine can have Nazi rule with a Jewish president..
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/angry-diplomatic-row-between-israel-russia-over-hitlers-jewish-blood-remarksIn his 1953 memoir In the Face of the Gallows (published after his execution in 1946), Hitler’s lawyer Hans Frank claimed that Hitler had told him to investigate rumors of him having Jewish ancestry. Frank said Hitler showed him a letter from a nephew who threatened to reveal he had Jewish blood. Frank wrote that he found evidence that Hitler’s grandfather was Jewish and that Alois’ mother, Maria Schicklgruber, worked as a cook in the home of a wealthy Jewish family named Frankenreiter in Graz. Austria, was impregnated by a member of the family – possibly their 19-year-old son – when she was 42.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/was-hitler-jewishBasseterreKitona said:
“That Nato map needs a minor correction because France was not a member of NATO in 1990.”France was still a NATO member, but withdrew French troops from the combined command, so they would only be commanded by French officers.
Michael Hudson interview (partial transcript) posted at NC (also @ the Saker)
@R.I.M. About my views on elective medical abortions of unwanted pregnancies:
I grew up in the period when this was contested and then settled, being born in 1958 and graduating med school in 1986.
I was aware of the horrors of “back alley abortions”. Everybody was. That was a big deal. In internship we went to a clinic one morning a week where we did (pelvic gloved exam) uterine-size estimates on women who sought pregnancy termination. We got pretty good at it. That was befor ultrasound.Prior to that, in college, I was a guy that girls would ask to go to the abortion clinic with them, because I was normal and nice. I went. I just went with them.
I have never had the feeling that abortions were a thing I could do in good personal conscience.
I have always felt that abortions should not be performed after fetal viability, except in emergencies, like car wrecks.
There are “medical abortion” options that did not exist in the past, very effective. You take some pills.
Early is the rule on these.“Weeks pregnant” is widely misunderstood. The weeks do not start on the day of conception, but the first day of the last menstrual period, which is 2 weeks before that on-average.
This misunderstanding is milked for effect on billboards, I notice.This is not easy. If it’s easy for you, you are discounting somebody’s life difficulties.
In internship we had this patient in the hospital on the surgery service, I forget why, but she needed us to not put on her papers that she was pregnant because her boyfriend would find out, and he had already told her that “if she killed his baby, he would kill her”.
I had no reason to disbelieve her, and did my best to help her find abortion access, and we kept it mum…
I hope she did ok.Sigh … Saker and other war news links won’t upload again
Eleni sends this article about NATO/Ukraine opening a new war front against Russia in Moldova, at the expense of the local farmers, who really don’t want that. Russian supply lines are not opened by land, sea or air. There is a Russian arms depot in Transnistria (Moldova) with 22.000 tons of military supplies, the largest such depot in Europe. This is a WW-3 scenario, initially favorable to NATO. Poles, Ukrainians, Romanians, Moldovans and Russians will die.
… Moldova, in fact, is under external control no less than Ukraine. At the same time,the majority of the population of the republic does not support the beginning of hostilities in Transnistria.
Also, the Armed Forces of Moldova do not have necessary power. Therefore, an attack is possible only by the forces of Polish-Romanian units on the one hand and the AFU from Odessa on the other.
A new hotspot of the war can significantly change the nature and scale of the conflict in Eastern Europe. The escalation of the situation in Transnistria corresponds to Washington’s vision and statements that the United States is changing course towards Russia, from the desire to exhaust Moscow economically to a direct and complete military victory over the Russians on the battlefield.
This was recently announced by Washington after a meeting with Zelensky in Kiev.
…Saker Blog update:
The Mariupol situation appears to be nearing a possible conclusion. We reported last time that one prominent source said Azovstal would be fully resolved by 4/30 (today), while Sladkov said days ago that Azov had about 9 days of food left, which by now would put them at maybe 6 days or less, by those estimations.
We also reported that negotiators had arrived and were settling in to the small villages around Mariupol. Now today there is a large, full blown UN / Red Cross operation under way to evacuate the civilians in the Azovstal factory...
..Russian intel agency head Naryshkin, who issued the statement last time regarding Poland’s planned incursion has also now stated that, “plans to deploy a Polish “peacekeeping contingent” in the western part of Ukraine is not a version, but intelligence information obtained from several reliable sources, the Foreign Intelligence Service explained.”
In short, he’s saying this is not speculation but an accurate report based on many sources…
..”In light of the latest information about the aspirations of Poland and other NATO members, several questions arise. Firstly, what contingent is now formed on the eastern borders of the bloc, and secondly, why are all these forces being accumulated?
It is impossible to accurately assess the grouping of NATO countries, drawn to the borders of the Republic of Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova and Russia, having only information from open sources.
However, from what is known, a total contingent of 50,000 to 100,000 people can be inferred. This includes units deployed by Poland, and the American contingent, and units of various NATO countries deployed in the framework of exercises in the Baltic states. There is also information about a serious Romanian group in the Moldovan direction. Just as we wrote earlier, combat aircraft are also being transferred to Europe. In the shortest possible time, the size of the NATO contingent can be doubled.”..
..“The main topic that worries many today is the adoption by the US Congress of the lend-lease program for Ukraine. Delivery of large batches of modern weapons is expected soon. The war will reach a new level, because now we will also have to fight with the American military industry. Deliveries of American heavy weapons are expected, including F-16 aircraft. Today we wrote that Ukraine is already preparing pilots for these machines. Here you need to understand once and for all, we are at war with NATO, where Ukraine is just cheap service personnel and cannon fodder.” …
(PLANNED) .. On the topic of Lend Lease, it became a curious discovery that on the official U.S. Congress website, the date of the submission of Lend Lease to Congress was seen as 1/19/22.
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Charles Hugh Smith, Not the 1970s or the 1920s: We’re in Uncharted Territory
All of these similarities and differences are setting up a sea-change revaluation of capital, resources and labor that will be on the same scale as the extraordinary transitions of the 1920s and 1970s.
The awakening of inflation after decades of slumber has triggered a flurry of comparisons to the 1970s accompanied by a chorus of projections for 1970s-type stagflation, defined as inflation plus economic stagnation– limited or negative growth and high unemployment.
A less popular comparison is with the 1920s: a massive expansion of debt, an equally massive speculative bubble in assets and extreme wealth-income inequality, all against a backdrop of slowing growth and debt saturation.
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogapr22/not-1970s4-22.htmlMoon of Alabama notes that, “The typical US reaction to losing is doubling-down.”
That works if you have enough to keep betting, until you don’t or until Game-Over.
Ukrainian soldiers willing to die fighting Russians may be running low.
The soldiers know, and their families know, that they are expendable.
They want to live their lives.
“Ukraine is a victim here but not a victim of Russia but of much bigger plans in the U.S.”
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/ukraine-doubling-down.html#moreMuch tighter control of the public discourse narrative will be needed by our ill-fated owners.
Deep State Response, Dept of Homeland Security Will Establish Disinformation Board with Obvious Agenda
..The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced a new Dept of Homeland Security priority to combat disinformation {LINK} on technology platforms including social media.
Many eyebrows were raised as the announcement appeared to be an open admission that the U.S. government was going to control information by applying labels, that would align with allies in social media, who need a legal justification for censorship and content removal.
This CISA announcement was quickly followed by various government officials and agencies saying it was critical to combat Russian disinformation, as the events in Ukraine unfolded. In essence, Ukraine was the justification for search engines like Google, DuckDuckGo, and social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube to begin targeting information and content that did not align with the official U.S. government narrative.
Previously those same methods were deployed by the U.S. government, specifically the CDC and FDA, toward COVID-19 and the vaccination program.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/deep-state-response-dept-homeland-security-establish-disinformation-board-obvious-agenda/5778969An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm
“Censorship is the last resort of desperate and unpopular regimes. It magically appears to make a crisis go away. It comforts the powerful with the narrative they want to hear, one fed back to them by courtiers in the media, government agencies, think tanks, and academia.”An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm
“You can just call me the Mary Poppins of disinformation.” That Twitter intro to a TikTok parody of the song, “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” is now indelibly connected to Nina Jankowicz, the new head of the federal government’s announced Disinformation Governance Board.
Nina Jankowicz of Disinformation Governance Board Sings A Mary Poppins Style Parody Song
Biden’s ‘Mary Poppins of Disinformation’ the perfect nanny to tidy up mess of free speech?
“Time” with picture of going up new stairs backwards https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/time?s=w
It’s About Time, Edward Curtain
In 1898 the yellow press screamed Spanish devils and today it screams Russian devils. Then and now the press called for war. If the human race is still here in another 124 years, time and the corporate media will no doubt have told the same story – war and propaganda’s lies to an insouciant and ignorant population too hypnotized by propaganda to oppose them.
This despite the apocalyptic sense that permeates our lives because of demonic technology and its use to transform humans into machines who can’t think clearly enough to perceive reality and realize the threat posed by that quintessential technological invention – nuclear weapons…
..So time is my focus, for the last days have arrived unless there occurs a radical awakening to the obvious truth that the US government is pushing the world to the brink of disaster in full awareness of the consequences. Its actions are insane, yet insanity has become the norm. Insane leaders and a catatonic, hypnotized public lead to disaster.
I write these words with an old fountain pen, a high school graduation gift, to somehow comfort and remind myself that when we were this close once before in October 1962, Kennedy and Khrushchev miraculously found a solution to the Cuban Missile Crisis; and to find hope now, and that when my time is up and I join John Patrick in the other world, things will have changed for my children and grandchildren.
It is admittedly the hope of a desperado...
..Everyone is now doing time while scrolling messages on the walls of their cell phones. A twisted, convoluted, distorted, mechanical time in which it seems that there is no history and the future is an endless road of more of the same.
Some say we have all the time in the world. I say no, that we have entered a new time, perhaps the end-time, when the world’s end is a very real possibility. Hypnotized people can agree to anything, even mass-suicide, unless they snap out of it. Gail Tverberg presents the last few years through the lens of crude-oil production peaking in Summer 2018. In our current world, crude oil and economy and human population, which oil and economy support, track in close correlation. Lockdowns can be seen as a successful way to reduce economic demand temporarily. War has different effects, but it does destroy the economies of battlefield-countries, reducing oil consumption. The end of oil-fueled-economic-growth necessitates a huge, unprecedented turn from growth economy to salvage-economy (“de-growth”).
I see western power elites unable to agree on anything other than continuation of the current system as they bleed it to death. When it dies, they will need to fight each other over some new system, and they will need competent people to devise such a system, and competent people will not want to include our current parasitic leeches in the new and efficient economy… Compliance-managers will be happy to manage the status quo, but that’s all they can do…
Crisis calls us to duty.
The world has a major crude oil problem; expect conflict aheadThe world has a major crude oil problem; expect conflict ahead
aspnaz said: “I have a few friends who also claim to have had Covid. It amazes me how nobody claims to have flu these days. I have one friend who believes his uncle died of Covid. Without reliable tests, I take all these stories with a pinch of salt. Until I see evidence of why flu has been eliminated, I am inclined to take the boring approach and assume all the people claiming to have Covid probably just had flu.”
I have treated with repurposed antivirals since spring 2020, and have seen immediate results in most patients, overnight improvements, which I also experienced. Influenza does not respond to the same antivirals, things like ivermectin. Working and working and working with an illness and getting feedback from people about how the treatments affect them is the practice of medicine.
@WES: Thanks. I took the test after a week of solid and sustained study, and 6 months without seeing patients, then I spent 4 hours in spiritual study.
Where are we and whither go we?
@Aspnaz: I had COVID for Christmas/New Years, Delta, and I had “believed” in it from mid December 2019, when it didn’t-exist-at-all officially, but that Chinese Ophthalmologist got heavily bullied for his wrong speech, before dying of it in January.All of our models of reality are simplifications. It’s the best we can do. useful simplified-abstract-models can be really useful, or destructive, or useful to me and destructive to you…
I like to sell people those models…
I absolutely agree about holding “facts” in abeyance until they are given time and opportunity to “fit” or “clash” with the world model that I keep as a work in progress, always revising and updating…
I don’t have a better approach to truth than that, holding a jigsaw-puzzle piece to the side if I’m not sure that it actually goes to this particular puzzle that I’m trying to piece together into a coherent whole..
I saw something peak in global finance/economy in the third quarter of 2018. I was not the only one.
Gail Tverberg thinks it was associated with the peak in global crude oil production. She makes a good case for that, and for that being what’s behind the need for lockdowns and an expandable-world-war.The world has a major crude oil problem; expect conflict ahead
@Susmarie108:
Shhhh, …Don’t tell anybody. I used to lie, and I didn’t need hate to do it at all.
Selfishness worked fine,
Honest Injun!Dr D said: “Kill everything. Everything alive. Everything different. Everything not-me. In war, in sterile finance, in factories turning topsoil to concrete, trees into garbage mountains, kill everything, leave nothing, the endless crying hunger of MOAR. Because the one thing they’re lacking, they won’t let in, which is “life”. Is spirit. Is not-me. Is God.”
This is a problem with commanding the world through intellectual abstraction. Decisions within this model cannot begin to include the complex adaptation of living ecosystems, or even living humans, so they must simplify their calculations by eliminating that complexity, before they can model an outcome.
The problem is that when the survival of the ecosystem (economy) is threatened, only the complexity of life-adapting-broadly can eventually create a new supportive balance.
Until then the necessities just keep getting depleted until they are gone, and the living systems which produce the necessities of life just keep getting destroyed in this depletion.
Sometimes it even goes “too far”.
“Survival of the species is everyone’s business”, I once read on a late 1960s record jacket.
Antidote said: “I myself am reluctant to throw anyone under the bus AND assume some sort of moral high ground. I try to stick to what that rebellious jew told us re: Mary Magdalene. ….’”let he who without sin cast the first stone….”…you know the story.”
That was NOT Mary Magdalene, Friend.
The adultress was never identified.Last night Zerosum asked: “Does Recertification involve lying by saying “I’m sorry” (but “I was right”)”
Nope. I have been board-certified in Family Medicine since 1990, with ongoing requirements for lots of hours of their required continuing medical education (at cost) as well as regular testing requirements and other practice and medical education requirements, all of which I have always met.
I was notified in January that my board-certification is being reviewed for “discouraging patients from receiving COVID-19 vaccination”, which is usually called “informed consent”.
Indeed, I provided informed consent about deaths, injuries and uncertain protection from contracting COVID. I pointed these facts out to them promptly in January.
They notified me that they got my response, and I have heard no more from them.
I asked for refund of my $500 if the de-certify me (which is usually done for law-breaking and immorality with patients).
I presume they need to keep that money…
I will take the test tomorrow, after reviewing my last 10 years of medical education courses (a LOT).In my estimation, the best thing for the board and myself would be if I passed (yet again) and they then de-certified me.
I would wear it like a Purple Heart medal…Thanks friends.
Good comments today.
I’m cramming for Family Practice Board Recertification Exam Saturday, though I’m still under-investigation for disparaging vaccines last year. If they let me take the exam THEN de-certify me, they keep all the fees.
In my reply to their notification letter, I asked them for the $500 back if the decertify me.
They have it all figured out, I suppose…Oxymoron, i’m glad somebody is making sense down under.
The vaccinated ARE threatened by the unvaccinated, but they are 3 times as threatened by the vaccinated & boosted, I think…
@Ilargi: Musk says he’ll make the Twitter algorithms open-source.
That means replacing whatever is bottling you up.Also: Ghislaine Maxwell’s right breast looks larger in that picture with Musk.
In most women the left breast is larger, and most men have a larger left testicle.Why?
